Anybody else thinking a good approach to talking to someone wearing them is to demand they take them off before starting? Aside from they’re distracted by them, would you want your conversation recorded without permission or knowledge?
Some 10 million smart glasses will ship worldwide between 2012 and 2016 — and Google isn’t the only maker of these social glasses.
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The analyst firm estimates smart glass shipments will rise from 434,000 in 2014 to 2.17 million in 2015, and 6.6 million in 2016.
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Google isn’t the only maker of these social glasses. Japanese entrepreneur Takahito Iguchi invented and built Telepathy One, showcased in a small booth at the SXSW 2013 Interactive festival last month in Austin, Texas. The device, demonstrated by Midori Takaso, sports a micro camera and a projection display, along with a wireless system that allows wearers to communicate in real time.
Neither.
It would be nice to draw the line somewhere and cut the digital cord.
Will this actually enrich our lives or distract from it? I think it’s the later.
Given every example in History, comically Luddite.
You’re right. I’m only thinking of the tech as it relates to social interaction and how it will be used initially. Notifications pumped into your display.
It can and probably will do a lot great things…down the road.
I thought the real app was a price checker by reading the bar codes? I’d think the brick and mortar stores would flip over that.
Unintended consequences …… a beautiful thing.
Tooling down the interstate with your Google Glasses on and a little buzz, won’t that be interesting?
“would you want your conversation recorded without permission or knowledge?”
Anyone trying to have a conversation with me wearing those things will get a two word response, repeated as necessary:
“Fuck off!”
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Same here!
The right to privacy in PUBLIC may be one thing. But if you want or expect me to interact with you while you record our interaction then expect those very same words!
I can see it now… Everyone turning into mini lawyers learning phrases like, “I don’t expect you yo record anything I say and I don’t expect you to publish anything I do without my consent” at the beginning of every conversation. And thanks to the morons in Congress and the Supreme Court considering bills such as the recently passed CISPA bill (which still has to pass the Senate), it’s only a matter of time.
Either that or the fashion industry can expect a big hit with everyone choosing to wear full body green suits (including head).
http://collegehumor.com/picture/3841135/green-man
http://zentaiok.com/green-full-body-suit
I’m def getting one at some point and will use Google but one that looks less gay.
I just spit all over my kybd reading that. Thx
You know you want one to pretend to be hip.
Don’t you get hit in the head enough?!
Oh please, straights have been copying gay fashion for decades.
….From ear piercing to ankle socks…. I could go on but I’ve made my point. You probably still wear those calf high athletic socks and wonder why girls avoid you.
Never. Only a moron would.
And I will punch in the face the first guy with them on who looks at me.
It’s a fad. It will peak about where some cyborg gets run over by a bus while watching “Oprah” on his glasses.
Given every example in History, comically Luddite.
If all it could do was stream porn while you’re walking down the street, it’s guaranteed to stay.
Actually while I wouldn’t want everything I say or do while I’m out with someone wearing them you have no expectation of privacy when you are outside your home, anywhere outside your home.
I would prefer an implantable network interface that can record through my own visual cortex and speech/hearing centers.
I want a faster interface.
“… anywhere outside your home.” What about one’s own office? Also, a voice conversation in public can’t be recorded.
I would wear for police encounters. I wonder what the police will do about the anti wiretapping laws they cooked up to keep people from recording encounters.
Great. The thumbbrains are already hurtling down the highway in 5,000 pound gasoline bombs with their faces shoved into their mePhones. Now they can have “Paranormal Swamp Pawnbrokers of Walmart” pumped directly into their eyeballs WHILE they’re filming me. Gotta love the technological byproducts of syphilization.
All it will take is a Killer App and these glasses will take off. I’m betting the Porn Industry will win the race – handily.
This tech isn’t for us, its for our kids.
If Apple produced these and called them iGlasses, fanbois would be creaming there jeans to get there hands on them.
As for privacy, we have no expectation of privacy anymore, our privacy has been slipping away since the first camera was popped into a cellphone. Lets not forget the goobers in the Washington, both Democrat and Republican, Bush and Obama, have been working hard to pass and sign into law legislation to snip away at our rights in the name of security.
Oh hell, typos. Sorry guys.
This will become widespread and popular very quickly.
It is just another step towards chipping everyone so that “they” can track all of us with satellite GPS, record every word we say, and eventually every thought we make…
I’ll just duct tape my iPhone 5 in front of my right eye and periodically say the word “click” as I walk through a shopping mall. Lots cheaper, and no one will ever kick me out for having a cellphone.
These type of devices will be great for instructional recording or working with another user working on the same project. When setting up machinery for production and taking either still or moving images showing how-to for each operation will be a boon to the manufacturing industries.
In public they will be stolen off your head.
Getting almost as good as Apple, $1,500 to participate in a Beta.
as one who currently wears eyeglasses, and would love to get rid of them… why would anyone want to shell out big$$$ for a pair of glasses that will spy on you..
and what is this nonsense about being out in public and expecting privacy??? what nitwits made up that nonsense?
I don’t like Google’s ToS. Give me I-Balls — socially acceptable cybernetic gonads for your face.
“Wonderful”.
A device that can see, photograph, and video what ever and who ever we’re looking at, and potentially be able to automatically read what ever text we’re looking at as well as ID who ever we’re looking at/speaking with. A device that knows at all times where we are via GPS technology. A device that hears what ever we hear and plus every word we utter. A device that plays whatever it wants into our ears from advertisements to subliminal audio messages. A device that can display distracting imagery in our eyes, ruin our night vision with a bright white light, and flash subliminal text and imagery into our eyes without us knowing. A device that SHARES ALL OF THAT CONSTANTLY WITH THEIR MANUFACTURER.
All this Google and the other “glasses” manufacturers can do constantly in real time right out of the box – as long as there’s an internet or phone connection. As can their Partners, their 3rd Party Developers, and all the Governments at all levels who will all successfully demand and get access to the the content to any and all such a devices. Plus all the Hackers, whether for kicks or for Organized Crime. Plus the Spammers, who will buy access via the Organized Crime Hackers. Plus all the politicians who will legislate their right to use the “glasses” to campaign right in the wearers face and ear with no option to opt out other than yanking off the “glasses”. All the law enforcement agencies who will insist on being able to use them to do secret surveillance for them.
I’m sure there’s plenty of other “wonderful” things that can be done with such “glasses” technology.
Two way street. If enough people demand (payed or free) system where that or other devices data is used only FOR the customer in a given service (ex, location, need or response to it is never recorded for other use but only used to provide assistance to the customer than and there…) – crucial problems would be nullified. However, as long as majority wants “service” for “free” even though they have paid through their noses for their own device,… your analysis holds.
Meh… Vanity and hubris.
I’m old enough to know that nobody’s interested in anything I might say or do. I’m too smart, old and broke to be of interest. (Actually, its a vanishing trick I pull on the up and cummers. I mention I’m broke and I have instantly created a me size and shaped hole in their field of vision. [I then only exist to surveillance cameras.])
I’m also old enough to know that I’m not interested in any butt-munching fool who comes towards me wearing a pair of those. Again, I’m too smart, old and broke to be interested.
But it will make for some epic photobombs. 🙂
I think these might be the next Segway.
A. I don’t see any mainstream demand for this.
B. I can’t see women, fashionable people or old people wearing these.
C. The benefits seem dubious.
It’s an expensive nerd toy with some appeal to dorks too, but few useful practical applications. I will sell some but otherwise quickly be relegated to a niche.
Smart, humorous.
Will Google Glass be the next big thing or a Segway?
An image captures the imagination. close your eyes and imagine otherwise: all the tech in a different package. Not a pair of Elton John Glasses but how about a tie tac/bluetooth combo? connected to internet, this replaces the iphone, ipad, etc.
Enhanced Reality. Its like a better blow job.
The TECH will take over. Its packaging will take various forms.
Tech will take over. Certainly.
But this seems very unlikely to at least initially be the vehicle.
If it can be used to dramatically speed up work somehow … it will gain “legs”.
Most technologies that gain traction are useful + cool + have high utility + easy.
I question the useful and the “cool” parts.
Someone can put a phone in a pocket, the phone is relatively well protected in a pocket.
I can’t see that being true of these glasses — and they are vulnerable to damage and expensive to boot.
True Hymie, if a tech is useful it will be perpetuated until a mo-better replacement comes along. Would I wear a pair of these because of their cool factor? Nope, but i would if they helped me do something. If they are considered nerdy but useful the form factor would comform to acceptability. In other words, they would be designed to become less obvious that your wearing a recording device on your face.
http://betanews.com/2013/04/25/government-demands-to-remove-content-reaches-new-highs-google-claims/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed+-+bn+-+Betanews+Full+Content+Feed+-+BN
I’m thinking: “♫… Ghost Riders in the Sky…♫”
with Ghost Riders replaced by Drones, and Yipee Kayea replaced by a Government Directed Take Down Order.
the Beauty of Unintended Consequences.
This will be a boon to workers who need hands-free access to data while they work – surgeons, auto mechanics, etc.
One of the articles seems to play down the augmented reality applications for the glasses while playing up the audio/video applications.
I don’t see the concept or appearance of “smart glasses” deterring sales; not with the “geek chic” trend continuing and there being a substantial increase in near-sightedness for Americans under 30.
Is there any research as to how this affects a developing mind?
re: hands-free work …
Possibly. Then again, a surgeon has assistants he can order around and a fairly large view-screen on the wall is price competitive with the tiny eye screen these offer.
Hmeyers portraying the Fact Free Santini says:
4/26/2013 at 1:22 am
Tech will take over. Certainly. /// Well….there ya go. Explain your contradictions then.
But this seems very unlikely to at least initially be the vehicle. // You provide a conclusionary opinion without facts or analysis while at the same time saying the tech will take over. A “tension” at least??????? Given the Historical trend line of this technology, comically Luddite.
If it can be used to dramatically speed up work somehow … it will gain “legs”. /// It obviously does that.
Most technologies that gain traction are useful + cool + have high utility + easy. /// Not having used this tech, and seen only a few ads, the only one not obvious is “easy” and that will come with advancing improvements.
I question the useful and the “cool” parts. /// Its useful because it is the link between the user and INFORMATION as that term is various defined and touted. Its the interface. Thats why really–it CAN’T FAIL. Whats not cool? Puuuuuuuulease don’t tell me you don’t like the colors they chose for the goole glasses?
Someone can put a phone in a pocket, the phone is relatively well protected in a pocket.
I can’t see that being true of these glasses — and they are vulnerable to damage /// who knows? Sold state circuitry is pretty robust. and expensive to boot/// Oh my goodness? Consumer version 1.0???? And even as that, seems VERY CHEAP to me. How steep do you think the cost curve is? I will guess: one of the steepest evar!!!
Speaking of (who said dat) direct implantation into the HOOOOMAN nervous system==whats the over/under bet before 50% of people would prefer to have Google Glass over their own natural eyeballs?
Any takers?
Ir’ll be interesting to see what effects of long term hyper attention does to people. Sort of what happens to hard core gamers now.
Hyper Attention?…. Just like gamers, it will overcome and burn out a hooman.
Why do you assume Hyper Attention as the interaction?
You can wear the glasses or not, ie==only when needed or desired.
You can wear the glasses but have them turned off.
You select the program of interest.
But for those who choose some kind of Hyper Attention activity==they will do so as they do now.
The “idea” and functionality of Google Glass is around us and used by us all the time. It just a change of presentation.
I would buy one immediately for installation on my kiddie–and even my dog. NOT the Elton John Glasses, but just the gps locator part as a chip in a neclass, dog collar, and so forth. Oh–another for my car.
Just be “a little bit” more flexible in what you understand this tech to be. Don’t think of ONLY THOSE GLASSES on that guys face. Even with exactly that–how about some cool Borg Face Jewelry???
It is… obvious.
Ahhh crap!…….It is obvious…..you will be assimilated.
I wish my editor would act just a few minutes quicker.
All and all Google Glasses look pretty flimsy and smashable.
I have no problem with them.
I bought a Texas Instruments TI-99/4A 16-bit computer in 1981.
I graduated through the 286, 386, 486, Pentium, Pentium II, Pentium III, etc. etc.
I bought one of the first brick cell phones.
I snatched up one of the first Roku boxes that came off the assembly line.
I couldn’t wait to grab an Android tablet.
My netbook and laptops have hot SSD’s.
I have a sexy 58-inch gas plasma flat screen television and a Bose sound system.
But they can shove the Google Glass up their ass.
I bought Ginsu knives, vego-matic, and a pocket fisherman.
I’ll take a pair.
What?
No Chia Pet or Air Compression Leg Wraps?
Shame on you.
They’re on order.
Will you trade it all for what’s behind Door Number 1, 2 or 3? I’ve got to warn you, behind one door is a goat.
Why?
Google Glass per the OP==of course, only a joke product.
Portable personal interface to the Internet/your computer at home?
Why not?
I wonder how they will impact the eye? It looks like all the display is focused on one eye.
goolge (google glass demo) and drink of the pool of knowledge.
Just 5 of the first gen capabilities. Course===the whole point is==this is just a mobile connection to the knowledge base of the world. Demo shows things you can do with GG that you can’t do otherwise right now without a lot of gear.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=V3SAS1xpQw0
Pick your own. I’d like to see the History and Culture GPS linked Info Sites for when I’m traveling. Language translater of course could be a life saver.
Its KNOWLEDGE!!!!!!
Thats power.
I wear sunglasses outside to reduce the chance of eye damage from UV. I can’t see putting these glasses on outside too often. Unprotected eyes in our high UV environs is foolish.
Inside you will look like a giant tool. Worse than the a-hole’s always walking around my office talking on Blu-tooth.
Some combo that will be, Noob on bluetooth wearing Google glasses sitting alone at Red Robin at happy hour thinking he’s cool.
He’s not cool and he will remain alone….likely forever.
This is an at home device for the ultimate lazies.